Does Table 'Summary' Content have SEO Value?

The Lion · #1 (**permalink**) 01-13-2008, 05:03 AM

I've looked around on the web and have only found a couple tidbits about summaries having any value with respect to SEO. Is there any value?

One post I read said that summary content is what 'makes the Google world go round.' They didn't offer any references, so I kept looking. But I couldn't find any real articles on the subject (mostly because the search is difficult to query with the word 'summary' in there. Anyone have any ideas?

thx in advance,
The Lion.

**incrediblehelp** · #2 (**permalink**) 01-15-2008, 12:21 AM

Are you talking about blog summary snippets?

The Lion · #3 (**permalink**) 01-15-2008, 04:57 AM

Well, anything that can make use of the 'summary' attribute.

sands · #4 (**permalink**) 01-15-2008, 05:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by incrediblehelp

Are you talking about blog summary snippets?

From the Thread title it seems he meant the optional 'summary' attribute for the <TABLE> tag used generally for accessibility purposes. Check this:
HTML TABLE TAG

PaulMycroft · #5 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 10:37 AM

I don't believe this has any effect on your ranking as I believe that it's meant to help accessibility. Screen readers can read what the table is about, which helps the user.

Hope that helps.

The Lion · #6 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 11:03 AM

Yeah, I know the site. I'm a big fan. But it doesn't answer the question as to whether or not 'summary' content is read by metacrawlers and, thus, indexed.

No one seems to know, but I hate to assume it doesn't just because no one seems to know.